CNS

Central Neuroscience Society

The FY 2003 budget request for the NIH, based on current law, is $27,244 million, including VA/HUD appropriated Superfund-related research activities. The Fiscal Year 2003 President's budget requests $27,335 million for NIH, an increase of $3,902 million, or 16.7% over the FY 2002 estimate, and an increase of $3,712 million or 15.7 percent when including the FY 2002 Emergency Response Fund. This budget request for FY 2003 includes $91.1 million for accrued retirement and health benefits associated with the proposed Managerial Flexibility Act of 2001.

The budget completes the President's commitment to double the FY 1998 appropriation level in five years. Of this amount, $76 million is requested from the Veteran's Administration/Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Subcommittee for Superfund research activities. The NIH President's budget request to the Labor/Health and Human Services/Education Appropriations Committee is $27,259 million.

Support for AIDS research will increase by $255 million, or 10 percent over the FY 2002 estimate, for a total of $2,770 million. This amount includes accrued costs for the AIDS research program.

The FY 2003 President's budget request will allow NIH to continue its FY 2002 support of $100 million for the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis, to further the NIH's efforts to prevent and alleviate these diseases.

NIH's future efforts are rooted in knowledge gained over decades of publicly supported medical research. FY 2003 funds will be used to address converging arenas of scientific opportunity and public health, such as bioterrorism, cancer, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and the health of minority populations.